Did
you ever have one of those days? You know the kind where either nothing seems
to go right or you just can’t seem to get enough energy to tackle the day, or its
one disaster after another. Yeah, that kind of day.
Well
that was yesterday for me.
It
started out as a perfectly normal day around here. Bright and early, before the
sun even got up. Then my oldest son complained of stomach pains whenever he
moved.
Okay,
so maybe he wasn’t going to school and I would be calling the doctor.
I
got his brother to school, then his sister to her school, I even managed to
call the doctor then my other daughter came into my bedroom with a look of
sheer panic on her face trying to get her dad’s attention.
I
asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Gunner’s
bleeding.”
“What?
Bring him here, let me see.”
She
called him in and he calmly jumped up on my bed like there was nothing wrong
but I easily spotted the gaping gash in his side. I’m sure I yelled, because
unlike my daughter who’d been standing right next to him, I was able to get my
husband’s attention from across the room.
While
I quickly texted Gunner’s Mom (said daughter that I took to school), Dad found
his leash and loaded him in the car. We were out the door in minutes.
Of
course my daughter was still in class and didn’t get the message until class
got out. Normally she’d text me to let me know she was ready to be picked up.
This time she called, right as the vet came into the exam room, which set me
flying across town to pick her up.
Then
there was the mad scramble to figure out how we were going to cover this.
We
finally got home from the vets and I had about half an hour before I had to
take my son to his appointment. Mind you, I don’t normally take naps, but
yesterday, at that time, it was rest or not drive my son to his appointment.
After
his appointment I had about an hour before we had to pick up Gunner (after his surgery).
You got it, I laid down again.
Not
that I got much rest.
My
husband laid in bed with me and seemed to think it was a perfect occasion to
talk. All my kids (at least the ones who live with me) were home and they each
had something they desperately needed to tell me, at least once each. I think
one daughter came in at least three times. Then there was the fact that the few
times I’d been online yesterday my sister had not been so she hadn’t seen me
all day so she called to make sure I was all right.
“Yeah,
can I go back to sleep?”
“Okay,
maybe if you get some rest I won’t have to take another nap.”
“Don’t
count on it, nobody will leave me alone.”
She
finally said she was going to go take another nap.
I
finally got up to go pick up Gunner, trying to beat the clock because the
normal Tuesday night activity for our boys had been moved from the usual seven
o’clock time up to six.
Yeah,
that’s about the time we got home, but I don’t think my son, the healthy one,
even noticed or cared that we didn’t take him.
Now
today, I feel sick. That could explain my lethargy yesterday.
Here’s
hoping today's a better day.
Smile.
Make the day a brighter day.
